Mid-Week News Update

[inkstone]

Hello, trainers! I know I've been bad with news round-ups lately. It's partially adjusting to having a day job again and partially there not being a whole lot of news to round up.

But I've collected a handful of links, so I thought I'd break the pattern and do a mid-week news party!

• Pokémon Go has finally launched in India and other South Asian countries like Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. The hype may have died down elsewhere, but a new wave of trainers are coming in. I can't help but find that amazing! I know India, in particular, has been really eager for the game to go live, so I hope it meets their expectations! (source)


• Speaking of hype dying down, I'm sure you've all heard the cries of PokeGo dying and how the release of Sun & Moon would destroy it. Nope. It's still making tons of money. The reality is that PokeGo is a mobile game. Its measures of success are different from other game platforms and what a lot of critics are missing is that the core demographic for PokeGo is different: casual players who don't play anything else and open the game occasionally to see if there's anything out and about. (source)


• And finally, Pokémon Go was the most popular Google search of 2016. (source)

Any interesting news bits from your neck of the woods?

Comments

[lilacsigil]

No Christmas Pikachu yet, but I caught my very first Snorlax! I'm so thrilled! These events are great for variety in the Pokedex.

My brother was sent to Belgium on a work trip and promptly caught Mr Mime, but I have to say I don't envy the European players that one. It looks dead creepy!

[kotturinn]

We have definitely drawn the short straw on the regionals.

I whinged to a friend today about Pikachu being sufficiently rare in our neck of the woods (she had 1-of-1, I had 3-of-3 of which 2 were hatchlings from eggs acquired elsewhere) that...
In the next 10 minutes we saw, and caught, 3 Christmas Pikachu.

[inkstone]

I've seen videos of Mr Mime spawning and I'm like WHYYYYY.

[havocthecat]

The region-locked pokemon kind of frustrate me. A lot.